Frankenstein- Blog 3

The one thing that is very unrealistic about the book Frankenstein by Marry Shelley is the details told to Robert Walton by Victor Frankenstein. When Victor commences to tell his story, he says many things that are red flags for us to know that the narrator is not reliable. For example, when recounting to Walton the letters that were sent between his sister and him, he was technically able to recite them word for word. A real person in a conversation would either have to have memorized it, have it in front of him, or summarize it. No one would really recite it in the way he did. "My Dearest Cousin, You have been ill, very ill, and even the constant letter of dear kind Henry are not sufficient to reassure me on your account" (Shelley, 40). This letter, written by Elizabeth is recited to Walton by Frankenstein. Again, I see it to be unreliable that a person can have such a memory. We have to take in to account that the above mentioned, of being able to have it in front of him or memorize it is most likely improbable since he was in the middle of the ocean. It just bring out the fact that this story is fiction, more specifically science fiction.